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9th European Social Science History Conference Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012
 
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Wednesday 11 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 -18.30
Thursday 12 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.00 - 18.30
Friday 13 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30
Saturday 14 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30

All days


 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

G-1  -  LAB07: International Solidarity: Radical and Leftwing Networks during the Interwar Period
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Politics, Citizenship and Nations
Organiser: Holger Weiss
Chair: Aldo Agosti
Discussant: Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Holger Weiss Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Gleb J. Albert The USSR Section of the International Red Aid (MOPR): International Solidarity and Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kasper Braskén Activating International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Germany, 1921–1933
Fredrik Petersson Decolonization & Postcolonial Historiography: League against Imperialism, Anti-imperialist Movements, Networks, & Place, 1927-33
 

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

G-2  -  LAB08: Beyond the Grave: The Legacy of International Activists in a Transnational Context. The Case of Flora Tristan, Guido Miglioli, Ellen Wilkinson and Emile Pouget
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Matt Perry
Chair: Martin Farr
Discussant: Martin Farr
Matt Perry Ellen Wilkinson (1891 – 1947) Beyond the Nation State and Beyond the Grave
Constance Bantman Transnationalising French Anarchism through Biography: The Case of Emile Pouget
Claudia Baldoli Guido Miglioli (1879–1954): Crossing and Re-crossing the Hostile Terrain between Catholicism and Communism
Máire Cross Remembering and Forgetting Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
 

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

G-3  -  LAB01: Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Employment
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Alastair J. Reid
Organiser: Peter Ackers
Chair: Alastair J. Reid
Discussant: Peter Ackers
Stephen Caunce Agricultural Hiring Fairs in Northern England, 1890-1930: A Reconsideration
John Kimberley Cadbury Labour Management: Paternalism - or Something More?
Daniel Bennheden Membership in Mutual Aid Societies in Early 20th Century Sweden
 

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

G-4  -  LAB02: Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: General Co-operation
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Peter Ackers
Organiser: Alastair J. Reid
Chair: Antony Webster
Discussant: Nicole Robertson
Patrick Doyle The Co-operative Movement in County Kerry, 1889-1910
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe Mazzini’s Transnational Legacy amongst English Co-operators
Martin Purvis Revisiting Hard Times: Consumers’ Co-operation in Interwar Britain
 

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

G-5  -  LAB03: Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in 20th Europe: Culture
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Culture
Organiser: Peter Ackers
Organiser: Alastair J. Reid
Chair: Peter Ackers
Discussant: John Kimberley
Isabelle Cases Popular Voluntary Association and the Preservation of British Industrial Heritage.
Klaas Keirse Catholicism and Working Class. The Christian Workers Movement in Belgium after 1945.
Andy Vail The Early Adult School and Brotherhood Movements in the West Midlands: Adult Education, Evangelism or Social Activism?
 

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

G-6  -  LAB04: Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Organising for Change
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Alastair J. Reid
Organiser: Peter Ackers
Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Discussant: Alastair J. Reid
Calum Aikman The SDP and the Trade Unions
Ruth Davidson ‘With a Fiery Fervour’: The Role of Working-class Women in Municipal Welfare, Croydon, 1900-39.
Wessel Visser The Rise and Transformation of Solidarity, a South African Labour Movement
 

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

G-7  -  LAB05: Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Co-operation and Working Class Self-help in Britain
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Material and Consumer Culture
Organiser: Peter Ackers
Organiser: Alastair J. Reid
Chair: Nicole Robertson
Discussant: Martin Purvis
David Stewart The British Co-operative Movement and the Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance, 1949-1964
Rachael Vorberg-Rugh The British Co-operative Movement and the Politics of Food in the First World War
Antony Webster A Dysfunctional Federation: The Co-operative Wholesale Society and the Internal Politics of Distribution in the 19th Century British Co-operative Movement
Angela Whitecross The Co-operative Party and Food Controls in World War Two
 

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

G-9  -  LAB19: An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 I
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Economics
Network: Labour
Chair: Matthieu Leimgruber
Discussant: Matthieu Leimgruber
Vincent Gayon The OECD and the "Crisis" of Keynesianism: the McCracken Report (1975-1980)
Floriane Galeazzi The OECD Roadmap for Global Finance, 1962-1985
Matthias Schmelzer A 'Temple of Growth' in Crisis? The Production of Economic and Environmental Policy Norms Within the OECD during the 1970s
 

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

G-10  -  LAB20: An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 II
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Economics
Chair: Matthias Schmelzer
Discussant: Richard Woodward
Matthieu Leimgruber The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and its Challenger : The ILO, the OECD, and the «Crisis of the Welfare State» (1975-1985)
Jochen Mayer The OECD as Centre of Calculation and Evaluation. The Example of the Working Party on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 1976-1985
Thomas Hajduk First Come, First Served? The Struggle for a Code of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises and the OECD Guidelines during the 1970s
 

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

G-11  -  LAB31: Strikes in Europe: Recent Development
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Kurt Vandaele
Chair: Bert Altena
Discussant: Raquel Varela
Kurt Vandaele Sustaining or Abandoning ‘Social Peace’? Strike Development and Trends in Europe since the 1990s
Heiner Dribbusch Organising by Conflict: Exploring the Relationship between Strikes and Trade Union Membership in Germany
David Lyddon A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK
Sjaak Van der Velden The 2010 Dutch Cleaners Strike, New Ways in Unionism
 

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

G-12  -  LAB32: Labour Militancy since the Late 19th Century in a Global Perspective
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Chair: Sjaak Van der Velden
Discussant: Kurt Vandaele
Paulo Terra The strikes of streetcar workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1870-1906)
Jesper Hamark Dockers’ Non-militancy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Swedish Port Strikes in an International Perspective
Charles McGuire: no abstract
Linda Clarke, Charles McGuire, Christine Wall ‘Lump it or like it?’: the significance of the ‘lump’ to the development of building industry in Britain '
 

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

G-13  -  LAB09: Working with Kin: Unpaid Work, Apprenticeship and Kin's Labour in Family Business
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Women and Gender
Organiser: Anna Bellavitis
Organiser: Manuela Martini
Chair: Amy Erickson
Discussant: Raffaella Sarti
Discussant: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Anna Bellavitis Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe and the Case of 16th Century Venice
Manuela Martini When Unpaid Workers Need a Legal Status. Trade Associations, Family Workers and the Changing of Labour Rights in 20th Century France
Maria Ĺgren Managing the State in a Local Context: Lower Civil Servants in Early Modern Sweden
Céline Bessiere Gender in Wine-Growing Family Businesses (Cognac, France) : The Problematic Place of the Conjugal Partner
Claire Lemercier Apprenticeship, Wages and Contracts during the Industrial Revolution. Lessons from the Parisian Case
 

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

G-14  -  LAB10: Climate Change: An Issue for Labour Historians
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Silke Neunsinger
Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Discussant: Holger Weiss
Lars Berggren Linking Labour History and Environmental History
Verity Burgmann From ‘Jobs Versus Environment’ to ‘Green-collar Jobs’: Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate
 

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

G-15  -  LAB11: Work, Correction and Punishment in Workhouses and Correctional Houses
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Sonja Hinsch
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Dominique Grisard
Sonja Hinsch Forced Labour and the Right to Work in Austria, 1918-1938. Meanings of Work in Correctional Houses, Voluntary Labour Service, and Productive Unemployment Relief
Virginia Crossman The Irish Workhouse as a Site for Moral and Practical Training
Megan Doolittle The workhouse in the slum – London 1880-1910.
 

 Saturday 14 April 16.30 - 18.30 

G-16  -  LAB12: Cancelled! Labor Rights, Migrant and Foreign Workers and International Law in 20th Century Europe
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Labour
Network: Ethnicity and Migration
Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Eric Golson European Neutral Labour Transfers to Germany during the Second World War
Thomas Cayet From the International Labour Organization to the European Coal and Steel Community: Defining Regional Cooperation on Manpower in the 1950s
Christiane Reinecke Illegal Labour: Work Permits and Undocumented Workers in the British and German Migration Regime of the 1920s